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Letters Patent N 106,220, dated August 9, 1870.

IMPROVEME'NT IN 'WASHING-MACHINE.

l The Schedule referred to :ln these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

I, MonRILL A. SHEPARD, of Evansville, in the county of Vanderhurg andState of Indiana, have invented certain Improvements inWashing-Machines, of' which the following is a specification.

l Nature and Object of the n'vcntion.

My invention is simply an oblong vessel madeout ol' zine or othersuitable material, with vertical sides and horizontal bottom and top,with oval-ends all corrugated.

The vessel is to be' suspended on asta-lf, on which there are two armsarranged to receive two axles that are fastened to the vessel, in whichclot-hes'and water are placed.

Then, yby merely tilting thevessel up and down, the clothes will bethoroughly and expeditiously washed. Description of theAccompanyingDrawing. i

` Figure 1 is a perspective view ready for washing.

Figure 2 1s an end view of the machine, showing the stall' A, and thearms F F, and strap L.

iene/ral Description..

A isV a forked staff, which can be of cast-iron or `and'zinc or othermetal bottom, top, and ends, which .are all but the sides corrugated,making a complete wash-board.

`The cover M is made the same as the wash-board,

dirt in the wristbands, collars ot shirts, 85o., so as to -save theother part ot' the garments being washed more than necessary. p Y

D D are two axles fastened about the center on each side of the oblongvessel, to support the vessel on the. stati' A. v

E E are two handles fastened to the vessel, by which a person can tiltthe vessel B npand down, causing the water and clothes that are in thevessel to move rapidly from one end of the machine' to theother over thecorrugated 'surf-ace, and with the sudden and powerful rcactionof thewater the clot-hes will he thoroughly cleansed with but a small amountof labor.

The size of the machine for ordinary purposes,

when worked-by hand, can be about three and a halt" feet long, fourteeninches deep, and twelve to fourteen inches wide.

If worked by steam or other power, which 'au be easily done, thesizethen will depend onthe. amount ot washing that may be required to bedone.

L L are two straps, fastened at one end to and near the lower endol thestati A, and the other end to the end of the vessel B, so as to check'the vessel B from tilting too far, and by this sudden checking by theseYstraps a powerful reaction ofthe wateris brought about in the vessel,and by the reaction the water is forced through the clothes.

Iclaim as my invention- The oblong, oval-ended, and corrugated vessel B,the forked staif A, the arms F F, axles D D, the twc handles E E, andthe two straps LeL, the cover M, all combined as shown, for the. purposehereinbfore set forth.

MORRILL A. SHEPABD.- Witnesses:

OL. O. MooRHEAD, W. S. SEARS.

